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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Plus even if they could, you need to give everyone a reason to adore you in the first place. Which so far hasn't really happened. In fact, he's done nothing but the opposite.
He doesn't get that. In his mind, everyone should adore him, no questions asked.
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The thing is, Trump is quite literally, completely incapable of answering that question.
It's like shopping with a 5 year old. First they tell you that they absolutely must have whatever it is they like, until they completely forget about it when the next thing they "absolutely must have" catches their attention.
edited 19th Jun '18 7:16:09 PM by megaeliz
I think people should also note that Trump didn't let black people in his housing developments early on and did his best to kick poor people out of territories so he could gentrify them with white people. He isn't racist in a litle way, he's racist in a LOT of ways.
The scary thing about the "Bad Dudes" and belief Mexico is sending an army of rapists across the Border? It's not hyperbole.
HE ACTUALLY BELIEVES THAT.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I don't get it. I think "If its something the villain in a terrible movie would do to prove how eviulz he is" its probably the wrong move is a pretty fair rule to go through life with.
To half of the country, he's not the villain. He's the hero. See Protagonist-Centered Morality for the explanation you're looking for.
Villain Protagonists run into this problem a lot, because once people start to relate to a guy, they tend to excuse his behavior. To this day, some folks still insist that Light Yagami is an upstanding human being who only ever provided good to the world.
Trump has that appeal for his base. His Tweets, his off-the-cuff rambling speeches, his f*ckstupid idiocy and constant lying, it all serves to endear him to a portion of the country. They see him as "one of us", an Everyman Hero who truly represents the American Dream that any f*ckstupid asshole could become the President of the United States. And they excuse anything and everything he does in much the same way that kidnapping stops being a crime if Homer Simpson does it.
Trump was elected to be President Peter Griffon. The portion of the country that went in with that premise in mind have not been disappointed.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.
Shit, even Obama at one point after the election admitted this might be the case. As he puts it, maybe people just want a cartoon for President.
That's the worst thing about Trump (aside of course from the very real damage he's doing to the world). Him being the Ugly American is a feature for his base, not a bug.
edited 19th Jun '18 7:39:01 PM by M84
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. That's why it doesn't actually matter how much he believes the crap he's pedaling.
For a narcissist, everything is transactional. He will say whatever he thinks will make him look good in any given situation, and then turn around and say something that completely contradicts that at the drop of a hat. Perception is all that matters, and he couldn't care less about things like consistency or honestly, anything else.
edited 19th Jun '18 7:47:58 PM by megaeliz
Quite.
One of the most pervasive myths about Trump is that any second now, the people who voted for him will suddenly realize what kind of person he truly is.
Trump's voters know goddamn well what kind of person he is. It's why they voted for him.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.So if we're going by the idea that the only two ways to deal with someone like him, is either by giving him an easy out and avoid drawing his ire more than necessary, or simply just steamrolling him, and risking retaliation, which is the better choice here?
The Senate at least, is trying to do the latter with the ZTE deal, by passing legislation to block it, but how will this end, I wonder.
edited 19th Jun '18 8:04:58 PM by megaeliz
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Even some of those idiots are still standing by Trump. They're willing to leave their hand on the stove if it means they stick it to "liberals".
The GOP clearly wants to give him that out. But he's making it harder on them since, again, they don't know what the fuck he actually wants them to do.
edited 19th Jun '18 8:04:02 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedIt's one of the few points where he's been consistent. It's probably because he's the kind of guy who likes YUUUGE monuments to himself. Of course he'd like a YUUUGE wall. If he could get away with it, he'd probably have giant pictures of his ugly mug and his name all over it.
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That's the shitty thing - the House GOP is drafting legislation that would keep kids together with their parents
while still incarcerating them, and they attached $25 billion for that goddamned wall to sweeten the pot for him and the more conservative Republicans.
Trump does want a monument to himself. It's a shame he latched onto a wall instead of, say, a pyramid. Then he could live in the damn thing.
So in the course of a few days we have had Trump comparing illegal immigrants to an infestation (sounds familiar...), a Congressman was denied access to one of the detention camps, nobody knows where the children go after being separated from their parents, AND Frau Engel went on her show to compare the camps to "Summer Camps".
I remember back when people told me no, Nick, no, the Trump Administration is not like Nazis. That is hyperbole. And now we see the Trump Administration sinking to the very depths of evil, and they cite Bible pages like...why, why does it matter if or if not that something is Biblical. We don't live based on the Bible.
Let me remind all of you that the Nazis got all their worst ideas from America itself. This is a response to someone a few pages ago saying this problem was "All American" and Nazism was a German train(wreck) of political thought.
It would not surprise me at all if ICE was doing something like gassing those kids or selling them into slavery to make war gear or material that Trump's people might need.
edited 19th Jun '18 8:25:18 PM by NickTheSwing
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Minor nitpick: people didn't live in pyramids. Pyramids were tombs. Humorously, the pharaohs themselves realized that the pyramids were Awesome, but Impractical incarnate, given that they were magnets for tomb raiders. Which is why they came up with the Valley of the Kings.
Don't you remember, Ben Carson said they were grain silos.
edited 19th Jun '18 8:38:52 PM by sgamer82
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Well, no need to get completely hyperbolic about the issue. It's bad enough as it is.
And if any of these kids die, it will be through catastrophic mismanagement and neglect, more than an active campaign of extermination. Though they certainly seem willing to blur that line, I'll give you that.
The real danger comes from this situation simply continuing unabated, because all they have to do is keep making children suffer and ignore everyone else. Which they can do, since they have the near-absolute guarantee that nothing will done until November at least. And who knows what other issues will be sucking up all the oxygen by then.
edited 19th Jun '18 8:39:22 PM by Eschaton
You know that, and I know that, but does Trump know that?
Probably-it's hard to say. On one hand: Smarter people than Trump believe dumber things. On the other hand, that's pretty common knowledge.
Just to nitpick, not all pyramids were tombs... many of ours weren't. >.>
While people didn't live in our pyramids (no, the Templo Mayor wasn't the palace of Moctezuma), they were mostly temples and they were used for many things, as a place for their rituals, to enthrone a ruler, to hold political meetings and even as a temporary residence for priests in training, etc.
Let's not follow that train of thought any further.
Seriously, when is the last time any assassination attempt ultimately made things better for the world?
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Right after I made that earlier post I did wonder if pyramids in other countries were used for other purposes.
edited 19th Jun '18 10:05:39 PM by M84
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